“And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.”(Acts 16:26)
The scene is a jail in Philippi. The time is midnight. Two servants of the Lord Jesus are incarcerated in the inner prison with their feet securely fastened in stocks. The two servants, Paul and Silas are praying and singing.
An earthquake shakes the prison and all the doors fly open and all the shackles are loosed. You and I as Christians can always expect trouble; Jesus said so. But we cannot always expect an earthquake to change our situation. Yes, sometimes God sends an earthquake. But, I remind you that Paul, one of the men in this story, would die in Rome at the hands of an executioner with no earthquake to deliver him.
You may go through some trials without God’s miraculous intervention. But He promises to see you through it and to never leave you nor forsake you. Just prior to his execution in the Roman prison Paul said, “At my first answer no man stood with me…notwithstanding the Lord stood with me…” (II Timothy 4:16, 17)
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